Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:43:51 +0200 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Miles Nordin <carton@Ivy.NET> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel panic with firewire PCI card Message-ID: <20090330194350.GA2097@alchemy.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <oqmyb4uxek.fsf@castrovalva.Ivy.NET> References: <49CD39B7.3050500@nexus-ag.com> <20090328214138.GA93149@alchemy.franken.de> <oqmyb4uxek.fsf@castrovalva.Ivy.NET>
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On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:05:55PM -0400, Miles Nordin wrote: > >>>>> "ms" == Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> writes: > > ms> In theory there are some ways one can make them > ms> work anyway but that would be quite some work to do if at all > ms> feasible. > > see uvesafb in linux for possible starting point This is one of the approaches I meant, with the XFree86/X.Org int10 module being a similar one but with a way less problematic license. Anyway, getting non-FCode/Sun graphics cards to work would be lots of work IMO better spent on improving the support for the "native" cards. Marius
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